And I’m betting that if we brought up the tape of Rush talking about this vote back when it happened, we’d find he understood the vote and what it meant.
And if he wanted to use it against Castle, he wouldn’t say that Castle supported impeachment (which is false), he’d say that Castle didn’t want to play along with the political game his leadership was pushing.
How much ya wanna bet?
You say that Castle and 23 other enlightened Republicans did not want to play politics, and evidently 166 others, by inference, did want to play games.
It seems the House minority leadership decided to plant the flag and make the Dems take a vote on their spurious claims about impeachment issues.
Wow, imagine that, making Dems take a stand and be exposed for their hatred of President Bush!
And double wow, Mike Castle, dons his cape and stops what could be a damaging move by his leadership that could backfire against his party. What a guy!
Are you delirious?
Why would you vote for it to go back to Committee to avoid embarrassing Nancy Pelosi?
Why would you vote to let it go to Committee to “die”? Really? And how did you or Mike Castle know it would die? That’s a committee with a Dem majority—they could revive it anytime they wanted, and use it as a bludgeon against the GOP.
And why would you EVER, EVER vote for a Kucinich authored piece of legislation?
Even today on ABC news, Castle said, talking about Murkowski, that he talked with many DEM Senators that respected Lisa Murkowski—like that means anything except that he actually gives a crap about what Dems think.
Please—peddle your insane “Mike Castle is a political genius and knows better than his leadership” line somewhere else.
Castle believes in global warming and embryonic stem cell research and abortion—three touchstones of the liberal left that conservatives are trying to combat.